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You can then choose to place it at the top, bottom, left or right of your monitor.

To change the position of the taskbar, right-click it and select ‘screen position’. This will open a sub-menu where you can select a specific item to add to the taskbar to add a specific folder, select ‘path’, navigate to the desired folder from the pop-up menu, and click ok.Īn icon for your chosen folder will appear in the taskbar, which you can then customise by right-clicking and selecting ‘Icon Settings’, with options such as changing the visual representation to fit the taskbar’s theme.Īlternatively, you can also just drag and drop a file or folder directly into your taskbar from the desktop or your folders. To add new icons, right-click the taskbar and select ‘Add Item’. It will also include a few icons linking you back to the creators, but these can be deleted by right-clicking them and selecting ‘Delete Icon’.Ĭustomisation is simple: you can drag and drop the icons on the task bar to rearrange them, or drag them outside of the task bar to remove them altogether.

By default, it should open at the top with icons already set up to take you to your control panel, network, documents, music, pictures and My Computer folders. When we installed it, RocketDock was malware, adware and browser-toolbar free, but always check to make sure you're not installing something you don't want as well as the product. Once it’s finished, install the program with the default settings, unless you want to change the location of the program files or add a desktop icon. RocketDock should take no more than a few minutes to download.

RocketDock is simple, effective and free, so that’s what we’ll be using. The best way to achieve the effect of allowing us to store files, programs and windows to an additional location of the desktop is by using an OS X style 'dock' program.

If you constantly find your taskbar getting filled up with too many icons, here’s how to add a second taskbar to your screen in Windows 7.Īs Windows does not come prepackaged with this capability, you’ll need to download a third-party application. Even in our modern, technology-centric world where many of us have monitors the size of a small rug, sometimes you just need more space.